When your new nursing job is not the right fit: what to do next

If a role doesn’t live up to your expectations, should you walk away? Former RCN Nurse of the Year Nicola Bailey on career decisions and finding the right fit

Moving to a new job that ends up being nothing like you had hoped it would be is a setback that can happen to anyone – but how do you turn things around?

Sometimes the answer is to leave the job behind, says nurse Nicola Bailey.

When the job is not the right fit for you

‘It’s only when you’re in the job, you realise it’s not the right fit for you,’ says Ms Bailey, who was RCN Nurse of the